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The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice
More than a simple crime story, this is a forgotten history of Arkansas in the mid-20th century. Recommended for readers interested in antiheroes, self-made men, and survivor stories.
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Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis
For readers who enjoy true tales of heroic good guys chasing evil bad guys and fans of the podcast Chapo: Kingpin on Trial.
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Entrepreneurs, inventors, engineers, and futurists will find this biography inspiring.
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What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries—And Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World
The focus on sincere, factual presentation of current and future possibilities by leading experts is particularly welcome in this era of fake news and anti-science rhetoric. Younger readers surveying career options in the sciences will find much inspiration here, while the most widely read science generalists will be sure to learn something new.
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The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
For those interested in the histories of physics, astronomy, and/or cosmology.
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
For historians, philosophers, cryptographers, geeks, introverts, and anyone who has ever taken something apart to understand how it works.
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Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight To Bring It Home
For those interested in solving world economic and energy problems.
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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
There may be better books on disappearing and death fraud—Greenwood is led to two of her interviewees by their accounts—but this one is directed more at readers who, like the author, fantasize their problems are daunting enough, and their ability to resolve them lacking enough, that they find merely flirting with the idea invigorating.
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Morgue: A Life in Death
Readers interested in forensic pathology, medical investigation, justice, courtroom dramas, and criminal law will find this book simply to die for.
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